Kettlewell v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America

This cause reaches this court as a result of the allowance of plaintiff’s petition for leave to appeal from a judgment entered in the Appellate Court, First District. (1 Ill. App. 2d 300, 117 N.E. 2d 568.) There, the plaintiff suffered a reversal of a judgment which she had secured in the superior court of Cook County in the sum of $8118.75.

The defendant-appellee, The Prudential Insurance Company of America, whom we shall hereafter refer to as defendant, wrote a policy of insurance on the life of Norman L. Kettlewell, Jr. The plaintiff-appellant herein was designated the beneficiary.…